Printing machines



No. 6l2,83l. Patented Oct. 25, I898.

L. C. GROWELL.

STAPLE BINDING DELIVERY MECHANISM FOR PRINTING MACHINES.

(Application filed Dec. 13, 1897.)

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Patented Oct. 25, I898.

No. 6I2,83l.

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STAPLE BINDING DELIVERY MECHANISM FOR PRINTING MACHINES.

(Application filed Dec. 13. 1897.;

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N0. 6I2,83I. Patented Oct. 25, I898.

1 L. C. CRDWELL.

STAPLE BINDING DELIVERY MECHANISM FUBPBINTING MACHINES.

(Application filed Dec. 13, 1897.)

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N0. 6|2,83I. Patented Oct. 25, I898.

L. C. CROWELL. STAPLE BINDING DELIVERY MECHANISM FOR PRINTING MACHINES.

(Application filed Dec. 13, 1897.)

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N0. 6|2,83l. Patented Oct. 25, I898. L. O. CHOWELL.

STAPLE BINDING DELIVERY MECHANISM FOR PRINTING MACHINES.

(Application filed Dec. 13, 1397.)

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(No Model.)

No. 612,83l. Patented 0ct. 25, I898.

L. C. CROWELL. I

S'I'APLE BINDING DELIVERY MECHANISM FOR PRINTING MACHINES.

(Application filed Dec. 13, 1897.

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N0. 6I2,83l. Patented Oct. 25, I898. L. C. CROWELL.

STAPLE BINDING DELIVERY MECHANISM FOR PRINTING MACHINES.

(Application filed Dec 13, 1897.)

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L. C. CRUWELL. STAPLE BINDING DELIVERY MECHANISM FOR PRINTING MACHINES.

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Patented 0ct.25, I898. L. C. CROWELL.

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STAPLE BINDING DELIVERY MECHANISM FOR PRINTING MACHINES.

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STAPLE BINDING DELIVERY MECHANISM FOR PRINTING MACHINES.

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N0. 6I2,83I. Patented Oct. 25, I898. L. C. CROWELL.

STAPLE BINDING DELIVERY MECHANISM FOR PRINTING MACHINES.

(Application filed Dec. 13, 1897.)

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STAPLE BINDING DELIVERY MECHANISM FOR PRINTING MACHINES.

(Application filed Dec. 13, 1897.)

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U ITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

LUTHER C. CROWELL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO ROBERT HOE, THEODORE H. MEAD, AND CHARLES TV. CARPENTER, OF SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 612,831, dated October 25, 1898.

Application filed December 13, 1897. Serial No. 661,598. (No model.) I

To ctZl whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, LUTHER C. CROWELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, (Brooklyn,) county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printing- Presses, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention relates to that class of printing machinery wherein webs of paper after being perfected are delivered from the ma chine not only in book form, which books are stapled for binding them together, but in va- [5 rious-sized products both as to the area of the pages and also as to the number of the pages bound together.

In order that this invention may the more readily be understood, the construction and arrangement of the mechanism will first be explained and then the various modes of operation in the production of multifarious products of which it is capable will he set forth.

So much of a web-perfecting printing-machine as is necessary to an understanding of the present invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of so much of the delivery end of such a machine as includes the mechanisms composing its delivery apparatus, which mechanisms include a longitudinal folder, a transverse-cutting and a transverse-folding cylinder, which cutting cylinder carries stapling mechanisms. Fig.

2 is an elevation of the principal parts shown in Fig. l. as seen looking in the direction of the arrow 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged elevation of the folding-cylinder, portions of the frame and other parts being broken away, showing the position of the mechanism when it is adjusted for fullsheet non-collected products. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the mechanism when it is adjusted for fullsheet collected products. Fig. 4 is a like View of the same parts when the mechanism is set for half-sheet non-collected products. Fig. 4 is a like View of the same parts when the mechanism is set forhalf-sheet collected products. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the forward end of the parts connected with the foldingcarrier as seen looking in the direction of the arrow 5 in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a similar View,

partly in section. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the parts shown in Fig. 5, the position being that shown in Fig.4 and the point of view being that indicated by arrow 5 in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the parts connected with the folding-carrier at the rear end thereof as seen looking in the direction of the arrow 6 in Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is a transverse sectional elevation taken near the rear end of the folding-cylinder and showing the position of the pin-cam as set for the first revolution for half-sheet collected products. Fig. Sis a transverse sectional elevation of the folding and cutting and staple-tool carrying cylinders with their mechanisms set for the first revolution for producing full-sheet collected and non-collected products. Fig. 9 is a similar View of the same cylinders with the mechanism set for half-sheet collected and non'collected products. Figs. 10 and 11 are respectively end elevations of the folding-cylinder as set for half and full sheet products. Fig. 12 7 is a longitudinal sectional elevation, 011 a reduced scale, of the cutting and stapling cylinder. Fig. 13 is a sectional elevation on the line 13 of Fig. 12 as seen looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 14 is a sectional elevation on the line 14: of Fig. 13 as seen looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 15 is a detail view of the rotating foldingblade. Fig. 16 is a side elevation of the wirefeeding mechanism as seen from the front 8 end of the staplingcylinder. (Compare with Fig. 1.) Fig. 17 is a perspective of the wirefeeding mechanism as seen looking in the direction of the arrow 17 in Fig. 16. Fig. 18 is a perspective view thereof as seen looking in the direction of the arrow 18 in Fig. 16. Fig. 19 is a sectional view taken on the line 19 of Fig. 17, showing the rolls for feeding the wire as out of engagement. Fig. 20 is a similar View, but showing the wire-feeding 95 rolls as in wire-feeding engagement. Figs. 21 to 31, inclusive, are views of the end of the stapling-cylinder and cams for regulating the Wire-feed. Fig. 32 is a plan View, Fig. 33 an end elevation, and Fig. 34 a side elevation, of the arrangement and operation of the longitudinal folder and the turning-guides cooper ating therewith in the production of the narrow and short page products shown in Fig. 39. Figs. 35 to39, inclusive, are perspective views of the several products produced by the machine as the same is herein shown.

My invention is shown herein as applied to the delivery apparatus of a web-printin g machine. One of the principal parts of this delivery apparatus is a longitudinal folder consisting of an internal guide L, external turners 50 60, and fold-laying rollers 80, as is common. The longitudinally-folded web is delivered between rotary carriers A B, which are provided with cutting mechanisms to sever the web transversely into sheet lengths, sheet or web controlling pins by which the paper is carried to proper position to be acted upon and released as required, and rotating folding-blades mounted in the carrier A, that cooperate with foldingrollers 2O 30 to give transverse folds to the sheets. The carrier A is also provided with mechanism whereby it is made capable of collecting many sheets upon its surface. These carriers are further provided with means for stapling together the plies of the product which they aid in making. From the folding-rollers there are provided two pathways for the delivery of the product, one of which is directly vertical to the arms of the rotary fly S and the other in a lateral direction, whereby the transversefolded products may be conveyed to a second folding mechanism to receive other folding, if desired, these two pathways being controlled by means of a switch 40, whose exact position is determined by the position of the adjusting-arm 41, which is regulated as desired by the pin 42.

The moving mechanisms of this deliveryapparatus are geared and driven in proper direction and relative speed by ordinary gearing, enough of which is illustrated to indicate the movements and which needs no especial description beyond such as is hereinafter made in order to explain peculiar constructions.

This delivery apparatus is designed, as abovepointed out, to cut, fold, staple, and deliver various products. The products which are produced by the special construction of delivery here shown (leaving out of view for the present the variations produced by the use of the switch 40 and the additions to the machine shown in Figs. 32, 33, and 34) are- 1. The product shown in Fig. 35-that is, consisting of eight pages of full width.

2. The product consisting of sixteen pages of the size shown in Fig. 35.

3. The product consisting of eight pages such as are shown in Fig. 36, the pages being of half the width of products 1 and 2.

of the same width as shown in Fig. 30 or product No. 3.

The web is severed longitudinally at the center, as shown in Fig. 32, and the two halves associated and carried to the carriers A and B. The length of the products numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4 is the width of this severed web. The-width of the pages of these products depends upon the cutting and other meohan isms provided in the carriers A and B. The width of the page presented by products 1 and 2 is one-half the circumference of the carrier A, the sheet being the full circumference of this cylinder, and in making this product the cutting mechanism is arranged to sever the web once in each revolution of the carrier A. The width of the pages in products 3 and at represents one-quarter of the circumference of the carrier A, the full sheet of these products being half of the circumference of the carrier A and the cutting mechanisms being arranged to sever the web twice during each revolution of the carrier A to produce this product.

Product No. 1 will be, it is seen, made up of the two associated sheets of paper severed at each revolution of the carrierA,once folded transversely and united at the told by staples.

Product No. 2 consists of two sets of two sheets, each set similar to the two sheets of product No. 1, collected, stapled, and folded once transversely.

Product No. 3 will be, it is seen, made up of the two associated sheets of paper, two sets of which are severed at each revolution of the carrier A, once folded transversely and united at the fold by staples.

Product No. 4: consists of two sets of two sheets, each set similar to the two sheets of product No. 3, collected, stapled, and folded once transversely.

In order to produce these several products, it is evident that two changes of condition are to be provided for-first, the change from the non-collected to the collected product, or vice versa, whatever may be the width of the sheet, and, second, the change from the wide to the narrow product, or vice versa, whether the sheets be collected or non-collected. The mechanism which I have devised for meeting the requirements of these changes will now be described.

The carrier A is provided with two sets of folding-blades, two sets of pins, and parts of two sets of cutting devices to provide for the severing of sheets twice during each revolution of the carrier and the manipulation of these sheets, this construction being illustrated in Fig. 9. The coacting cylinder B has a corresponding construction, as is also shown in this figure, it being provided with two knives, which coact with the notched plates in the carrier A, and with two sets of stapling devices. In order to adapt these cylinders to the production of the wide as well as the narrow product, the folding-blades are 4:. Fhe product consisting of sixteen pages mounted upon a removable frame, as indicated in Fig. 9, and when it is desired to change from a wide to a narrow product one of the sets of folding-blades is removed and in place thereof a set of pins carried by a similar frame is inserted, as shown in Fig. 8. 

